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  • How SAP Has Quietly Changed Strategy on HANA and SAP Oracle

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Limit S/4HANA to HANA: Here, SAP took its best-selling ERP system and, in the new version, called S/4HANA, limited it only to HANA. This was always an anti-competitive move, as there was never any true technical reason to perform this limitation. But as usual, the Federal Trade Commission and the European Trade Commission were not paying attention and did not step in. The concept was that many customers would migrate to S/4HANA, and then they would be forced into purchasing HANA. But that approach has not yet worked out as S/4HANA adoptions have …

  • How Accurate is Seeking Alpha on the Relative Decline of SQL?

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    … and Open Source Databases
    “The vast majority of SaaS providers today either use an open-source database, or, as is the case with SaaS HCM vendor Workday (NYSE:WDAY), develop their own. Every user of an on-premises enterprise application, including one of the five core client-server application categories: ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), HCM (Human Capital Management), SCM (Supply Chain Management), and BI (Business Intelligence) applications, which moves to SaaS therefore eliminates a commercial database seat, and with it, the maintenance/support and future upgrade revenue it would have generated. Even an enterprise seat that …

  • What Wall Street Does Not Understand About SaaS

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    … a negative ROI. This is due to enterprise software parasitization, particularly on the part of the major monopoly software vendors (Oracle, IBM, SAP & Microsoft). And by the major IT consulting companies. This is covered in the article How Vendors and Consulting Firms parasitized enterprise Software’s ROI. One perfect example of this phenomenon is that ERP systems became the most widely implemented enterprise software, while as covered in the book The Real Story Behind ERP: Separating Fact from Fiction.
    SaaS will lead to great things for customers, but it will not be a win for most software vendors. That …

  • Who Was Right and Who Was Wrong on SAP HANA?

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    … for someone who is thought of as being so intelligent, HANA makes little sense. But at SAP, at that level, you do what Hasso tells you to do. If HANA was in part his vision, one does not need a Ph.D. in computer science to recognize that you don’t put an ERP system on what is nothing more than a gussied up analytics database.
    John Appleby/Bluefin Solutions: Wrong
    Bluefin Solutions, more than any other consulting company, went all-in on HANA. They wrote articles lead by John Appleby, clearly copied and pasted from information provided to …

  • How Many SAP Software Products Does SAP Have?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … into the following individual products.

    SAP ERP
    SAP ERP Core Finance
    SAP ERP Core HR
    SAP ERP Order to Cash
    SAP ERP Plan to Product
    SAP ERP Procure to Pay

    However, this is all counted as SAP ECC. So, is the correct answer to count one or six products?
    We decided to count this as six products because it is consistent with how SAP has broken out its product database products. When measured this way, SAP currently has 309 products.
    Categorizing the SAP Software Products
    There are also many ways to categorize SAP’s software product database. We were …

  • How to Understand If According to Gartner S/4HANA Good is for SMB?

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    … suite has good global coverage, with comprehensive localization for 19 countries and support for nine languages, and it has been deployed in 120 countries. SAP Business ByDesign has customers in a wide range of industries, with professional services being the largest segment. It is sold direct and through reseller partners.”
    ERP Systems for Professional Services?
    Professional services don’t need ERP systems so that a financial system will do. But is ByDesign implemented by professional services companies that are not also SAP implementors? This is doubtful and is covered in the article The Problem with Consulting Company S/4HANA Implementations …

  • How Accurate is SAP's Page on APO?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … more comprehensive capabilities.
    To stay a step ahead of demand, you need a powerful platform that supports and integrates all of your supply chain planning activities. With SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization you can:

    Improve supply and demand planning for both internal and external supply chains
    Tightly integrate with SAP ERP to access sales, material, and other data
    Increase forecast accuracy and minimize inventory buffers
    Align mid-to long-term demand plans with your overall supply capacity
    Create optimized production plans for all of your factories
    Provide reliable sales order confirmation dates

    As a consultant who has seen many APO …

  • How Accurate is SAP's Page on HANA?

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    … still would not necessarily make the IT environment more simple. In fact, the change-over from the current databases being used adds complexity to the IT environment. And information from HANA implementations is that HANA has a lot more maintenance costs than competing databases.
    SAP said this also about their ERP system in the 1980s, and none of those predictions came true. The concept was that SAP’s ERP system would eliminate the need for all legacy systems, as is covered in the article How SAP Used and Abused the Term Legacy.
    Key Benefits of HANA
    Reduce Complexity
    Simplify IT …

  • How Accurate is SAP on SAP HANA Cloud Integration?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … term “out of the box,” it is time to question this. Out of the box is a highly salesy term, which usually translates to “a lot of work is required.” This is particularly misleading as Bill McDermott has already stated the following about integrating SAP’s cloud acquisitions with its ERP system.

    “With all those new products both homegrown and acquired, building native integration has been a challenge for SAP in the past seven years. If they want customers to sign on to the whole vision, with core ERP alongside SAP-owned cloud providers, integration is a key selling point …

  • How to Best Understand JNC Consulting on Indirect Access License Fees

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    … software and for which they use SAP programs such as the BAPI® programming interface, remote function calls (RFC), or transaction calls.”
    Examples of Potential Indirect Access Usage
    “Business customers using an eCommerce platform to place sales orders
    Sales representatives capturing sales orders via mobile device to input into SAP ERP
    A third-party CRM system accessing data in SAP ERP
    Partners and suppliers accessing SAP to check inventory and stock levels
    Partner or suppliers running and accessing reports on SAP system data via SAP BO
    Engineers entering plant maintenance data into SAP via mobile devices
    A third-party logistics …